







cotton thread
cotton yarn
Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists.
The only difficult part was threading the cotton through the eye of the needle!

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Open the tool →棉线 (mián xiàn) means “cotton thread, cotton yarn”.
棉线 is pronounced mián xiàn in Mandarin Chinese.
“cotton thread” is 棉线 (mián xiàn) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 棉线, each with pinyin and an English translation.